I was appoint to watch this movie one day, at 1st sight, I tot it was a horror movie instead. After watching it, I find it's a great movie and very well story line. Well, I was really surprise, never tot it will be that great. The main male character doesn't have much dialogue, but he conveys what and who he is by all the action. This is what we call a nice movie by delivering all the story and message by visual but not dialogue.
An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe.Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura(Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis(Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood.
Directed by:Tom Tykwer
Written by:Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Caroline Thompson, Tom Tykwer
Book Author:Patrick Suskind.
Tom Tykwer
